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C1771
A Plan of the City of Jedo (Tokyo)
Mapmaker:
John Andrews (1766 - 1798)
Town Plan of Jedo (Edo, current-day Tokyo) with colourful title cartouche. This plan was printed just one year prior to the Great Meiwa Fire which destroyed thousands of houses, businesses and temples. Andrews was a surveyor, cartographer, mapseller and engraver … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
A Plan of the City of Jedo (Tokyo)
Date:
C1771
Mapmaker:
John Andrews (1766 - 1798)
Condition:
In good condition, centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving with original hand colouring
Image Size:
160mm
x 185mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1771
Description:
Town Plan of Jedo (Edo, current-day Tokyo) with colourful title cartouche. This plan was printed just one year prior to the Great Meiwa Fire which destroyed thousands of houses, businesses and temples. Andrews was a surveyor, cartographer, mapseller and engraver of London. This early town plan is from ‘A collection of plans of the capital cities of Europe, and some remarkable cities in Asia, Africa & America’. Andrews’s superbly engraved and embellished series of town plans are usually found issued uncoloured, this set however has FULL ORIGINAL HAND COLOURING.
Mapmaker:
John Andrews (fl.1766-1798)
Surveyor, cartographer, map seller and engraver of London. This early town plan is from his“A Collection of plans of the capital cities of Europe, and some remarkable cities in Asia, Africa & America with a description of their most remarkable buildings, trade, situation, extent, & c.”
